This is my aighth posting to the photo challenge „Pull up a Seat“ from XingfuMama. There it is explained: „As I get older I find myself more and more often looking for a place to perch when I am out and about. This might be a chair, a bench, a wall, a pew…maybe even a log or a rock. These spots can be artfully designed, quirky or very plain, sometimes they have a view, sometimes you meet someone else who needs a rest. For this weekly challenge I will make a post every Friday morning. To play along:

1. Create a post with a photo of places one sits or might sit, or art about sitting, and maybe a little background or story about the spot or a picture of the view.
2. Add a tag “Pull up a seat”.
3. Add a link to your post in my comment section, either by writing a comment with your URL or by creating a pingback (when you create a link to my post within your post with the chain icon in the editor).“

It was taken on the Pantokrator, the highest mountain on Corfu.The mountain, which the Venetians called Monte San Salvatore, now bears the name Pantokrator, a concept of God from the Old Testament, which later also passed over to Christ and means something like the ruler of the world or everything. Christ Pantocrator is a popular depiction of iconography that originated in Byzantine art and continued in the Greek and Russian Orthodox Churches.

The mountain is now either 906 or 917 meters high, depending on interpretation, and the summit itself is not a beauty – despite the 17th-century monastery, which is inhabited in the summer months. This may be due to the large antenna towering over the monastery. An impressive antenna forest has also settled on the secondary top.

After the arduous ascent, such a bench to rest on is very welcome. The view sweeps over the east of the island, the Gulf of Corfu and across to the Albanian mountains. Even if there is no coffee to be seen in this picture this time – there was coffee on the mountain top in the café – I still have a very special memory of this place!

The full story here!